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Gatherings, events and hospitality Do the seated and separated rules for events serving food and drink, and food and drink businesses, still apply at Red? Seated and separated/food and drink rules still apply at Red, but only to indoor premises. This means: • that if your activity is outdoors, you don’t have to be seated and separated to consume food and drink. • you can go up to order drinks at outdoors on-licenses, rather than be served via table service. • if you’re in a venue operating both indoor and outdoor spaces, you consume food and drink wherever you like within the outdoor space of the venue. What are the seated and separated rules at red for outdoor events serving food and drink and outdoor food and drink businesses? Restrictions on food and beverage service outdoors have been loosened: • there are no capacity limits • there are no seating requirements • there are no facemask requirements • entry is vaccine pass required and workers must be vaccinated up until 11.59pm 4 April Under the new Covid Protection Framework, there are different rules depending on whether venues are classed as indoors or outdoors. What’s the difference? An indoor venue is one which is enclosed by ceilings and walls (or similar) and otherwise has a limited flow of fresh air. These could include gyms, nightclubs, restaurants and halls. Under the Red traffic light setting, these venues have a capacity limit of 200 people, and facemasks are generally required. An outdoor venue has good ventilation, with plenty of free-flowing, fresh air coming into the space. The space has no roof, fewer than four walls, or walls that do not go all the way up and allow a significant amount of air flow. Under all traffic light settings (including Red), these venues have no capacity limit or facemask requirements. What happens if my venue is both indoors and outdoors? Some venues are made up of indoor and outdoor spaces. The activity that occurs in these indoor spaces should determine what capacity limit applies – the rule follows the activity. This means that: • Retail capacity limits (capacity based on 1m distancing) generally apply to the indoor places in which people: o travel directly through to get to an outdoor space; and/or o need to enter so they can purchase things (for example food, to eat when back outdoors); and/or o need to go to use the bathroom. • Indoor capacity limits (of up to 200 people based on 1m distancing) generally apply to indoor spaces if people are using the space for purposes other than those listed directly above. For example, if there is entertainment or dining occurring indoors • You can still manage different spaces under the ‘defined spaces’ rule, with capacity limits applying to each defined space. Page 4 of 16
